Nationalist Congress Party

Elections to fill the 55 Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant in April will be held on March 26, 2020. Announcing the dates of the Rajya Sabha election, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday (February 25, 2020) announced that biennial elections will be held in 17 states following the retirement of the members.

The case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave, held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed, triggered violence near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial in the district the next day.

Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar will meet PM Modi today at 12:40 PM. Sharad Pawar to talk with PM Modi on the issues of farmers of Maharashtra. Watch this video to find out more in detail.

The meeting comes amid the ongoing tussle between BJP and Shiv Sena over the formation of government in Maharashtra. The BJP and Shiv Sena, who are part of the ruling coalition in Maharashtra, fought the assembly polls in alliance.

NCP workers had earlier staged protests after Sharad Pawar along with party leader Ajit Pawar and others were named in an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) in Rs 5,000 crore Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank (MSCB) scam case.

The Rashtrapati Bhavan has clarified Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar was invited to the VVIP section and his seat was allocated in the first row during the oath-taking ceremony of PM Narendra Modi, days after a controversy that the NCP chief skipped the event due to his seat in the fifth row. Watch this video to know more.

The report was prepared by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) after analysing the total income and expenditure incurred by the seven national parties as declared in their Income Tax Returns submitted to the EC.

A day after China hit out at Army Chief General Bipin Rawat for 'unconstructive' comments, Nationalist Congress Party leader Majeed Memon said that the Army chief should refrain from making any statements that can hurt the interest of the nation.